Monday May 12
– Conference, “Research Out Loud: Met Fellows Present” (including a session entitled “Mapping Materials from Source to Surface”), at The Met, 10:30am-12:30pm. In-person and online. Registration recommended.
– Candida Alvarez (artist) in conversation with Carla Acevedo-Yates (MCA Chicago), “Circle, Point, Hoop” (in conjunction with Alvarez’s exhibition at El Museo de Barrio), at The Brooklyn Rail, 1:00pm. Online. Registration required.
– Isabelle Graw (Art History, Städelschule Frankfurt am Main) in conversation with Violaine Huisman (L’Alliance New York) and Adam Pendleton (artist), for the book launch of Graw’s “Fear and Money” (Sternberg Press), at Pace Gallery, 6:30-8:00pm. In-person. Registration recommended.
Tuesday May 13
– Conference, “Research Out Loud: Met Fellows Present” (including sessions entitled “The Language of Objects: Inscriptions, Texts, and Context” and “Pieces of the Story: Timurid Tile Fragments in and through Time”), at The Met, 10:30am-12:30pm; 2:00-2:45pm. In-person and online. Registration recommended.
– Fabiana Weinberg (The Met), “Met Expert Talks—Celebrating AAPI Heritage Month: Monstrous Beauty,” at The Met, 3:00-3:30pm. In-person. Registration recommended. (Please note that this event is free with museum admission.)
– Kang Seung Lee (artist) in conversation with Amy Kahng (curator), “Body of Memory” (in conjunction with Lee’s show at Alexander Gray Associates), at The Brooklyn Rail, 4:00pm. Online. Registration required.
– İz Öztat (artist) in conversation with Lara Fresko Madra (Art History, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College), “Will Flow Free,” at Swiss Institute, 7:00pm. In-person. Registration required.
– Tim Soter, artist talk (part of the “i3 Photo Lecture” series), at School of Visual Arts, 7:00-8:30pm. In-person. Registration recommended.
Wednesday May 14
– Alison Griffiths (Communication Studies, Baruch College), “Medieval Media Studies: Dreams and the Digital Imaginary” (in conjunction with the exhibition “Visible Communication”), at Mishkin Gallery, Baruch College, 6:00-8:00pm. In-person.
– Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung (Haus der Kulteren der Welt, Berlin), curator talk (on his role as Chief Curator of the 36th Bienal de São Paulo), at CUNY Graduate Center (co-hosted by the James Gallery, the PhD Program in Art History and Independent Curators International), 6:30-8:00pm. In-person. Registration required.
– Latif Askia Ba (poet), Dalia Elhassan (poet), and Ladan Osman (poet and filmmaker), readings following the screening of the anthology film “Stories of Our Lives” (in conjunction with the photography exhibition “Between Nostalgia and Dreams”) at The Africa Center, 6:30-9:00pm. In-person. Registration recommended.
Thursday May 15
– Conference, “Research Out Loud: Met Fellows Present” (including a session entitled “The Lives of Objects”) at The Met, 10:30am-12:30pm. In-person and online. Registration recommended.
– Panel, “Anonymous Was a Woman” (a conversation on the grant-making organization, which annually awards $50,000 to 15 women-identifying artists over the age of 40 and at a critical junction in their career), at The Brooklyn Rail, 1:00pm. Online. Registration required.
– John Currin (artist), Jenny Saville (artist), and Dana Schutz (artist) in conversation with Cecilia Alemani (Gagosian), on the exhibition “Willem de Kooning: Endless Painting,” at Gagosian 24th Street, 3:00pm. Registration recommended.
– Lesley Ma (The Met), “Met Expert Talks—The Genesis Facade Commission: Lee Bul, Long Tail Halo,” at The Met, 3:00-3:30pm. In-person. Registration recommended. (Please note that this event is free with museum admission.)
– Conference, “The Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art Fellowship Presentations,” at Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, 6:30-8:30pm. In-person. Registration recommended.
– Marina Otero Verzier (architect), “When Pixels Wash Ashore” (on the case of Tuvalu and its plans to become a fully virtual and digitized nation), at e-flux, 7:00pm. In-person. Registration recommended.
Friday May 16
– Dean Daderko (Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis) in conversation with Jo-ey Tang (artist, writer, curator), on the exhibition “Like Water,” at The Brooklyn Rail, 1:00pm. Online. Registration required.
– Glenn Ligon (artist), Amanda Williams (artist) and Joseph M. Pierce (MoMA Scholar in Residence; Hispanic Languages and Literature, Stony Brook), on color in Jack Whitten’s work (part of the “Whitten Talks” series, in conjunction with the exhibition “Jack Whitten: The Messenger”), at MoMA, 6:30-8:00pm. In-person. Registration required.
Saturday May 17
– Conference, “Creative Convening—Monstrous Beauty: A Feminist Revision of Chinoiserie” (in conjunction with the exhibition), at The Met, 10:30am-4:00pm. In-person. Registration recommended. (Please note that this event is free with museum admission.)
– Conference, “Gordon Matta-Clark and NYC Graffiti Culture,” at The Whitney Museum of American Art, 2:00pm. In-person and online. (Please note that only online attendance is free.)
– Grayson Earle (artist), PROMPT (artist collective), and their AI collaborator, and Tal Linzen (Linguistic and Data Science, NYU) in conversation with Kay Matschullat (MAXlive), “Understanding the Brains (Human & Machine) behind Jur A** Itch Park” (a performance preceding the talk), at the Center for Performance Research, 4:00-5:15pm. In-person.
Sunday May 18
– Conference, “2025 ISP Critical Studies Symposium,” at The Whitney Museum of American Art, 2:00-5:30pm. In-person and online. Registration required.
– Whitney Claflin (artist) in conversation with Nick Irvin (PhD Candidate, Art & Archaeology, Princeton) and Jody Graf (MoMA PS 1), for the reprint of Claflin’s book “Food & Spirits” (in conjunction with her exhibition “I was wearing this when you met me”), at MoMA PS1, 4:00-5:00pm. In-person. Registration required.